Amit Shah Accuses Oppositions of Blocking Voter Roll Revision to Shield Infiltrators

Union Home Minister Amit Shah launched a blistering offensive on Friday, accusing unnamed political parties of deliberately obstructing the Election Commission’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls to protect illegal infiltrators, in a clear reference to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s fierce opposition to the ongoing exercise.

In a pointed Hindi post on X, Shah declared that halting infiltration was essential not only for national security but also to safeguard India’s democratic framework from being “polluted.” He charged that certain political entities had embarked on a mission to shield infiltrators and were actively resisting the Election Commission’s voter-list purification drive, remarks that came barely 24 hours after Banerjee’s explosive letter demanding immediate suspension of the SIR process.

Banerjee’s three-page letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar painted a picture of administrative collapse, describing the revision as “chaotic, coercive and dangerous.” She warned that booth-level officers—many of them teachers and frontline workers—were being stretched beyond human limits, grappling with inadequate training, glitch-plagued online systems, server failures, and unrealistic deadlines that risked mass disenfranchisement of legitimate voters by December 4.

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The Chief Minister accused the Election Commission of imposing the exercise without basic preparedness, clear communication, or regard for citizens’ livelihoods, asserting that terrified officials under threat of punitive action were being forced into erroneous entries that would permanently damage the electoral roll’s credibility. She urged an immediate halt, comprehensive retraining, and a complete methodological overhaul, cautioning that continuation on the present path would cause “irreversible” harm to democracy itself.

The Bharatiya Janata Party wasted no time in retaliating, with Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar dismissing Banerjee’s concerns as theatrical attempts to derail a lawful cleansing of bogus voters. Branding her opposition as proof of discomfort with exposing a decades-long “politics of infiltration,” the BJP demanded that she either publicly justify her stance or resign, escalating the confrontation into what now appears to be a defining pre-election battle over electoral integrity and national security in West Bengal.

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